CHAPTER 10
Audio Production and Post-Production
Recording and producing good audio is an exercise in sweating the details. Each phase of the recording, editing, fixing and rendering builds upon the steps taken before it. You can’t take a garbled, windy, low volume recording, hit a few buttons and magically have the background noise scrubbed out and the voice pulled-up clear as day. It might be possible to make some improvements to a bad audio track, but the work involved far exceeds the little effort and consideration it takes to do it right in the first place.
This chapter will cover:
• Microphones, mixers and pre-amplifiers
• Production notes, preparation and voice talent
• Recording
• Editing and mixing
• Mixdown and compression ...
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